Unbridled Tongue
Subtitle: Babble and Gossip in Renaissance France
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780199662302
Subjects: French literature, history and criticism, 16th century
Description: 'The Unbridled Tongue' is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in 16th-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it addresses Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumour in a social, religious, political, and historical frame.